British jihadi may have been radicalised by terror plot neighbours in Cardiff

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Nasser Muthana, the former Cardiff schoolboy who appeared in a terrorist
propaganda video last week, may have been the ringleader of a small radical
cell of youths who sympathised with extremists in Syria.

Reyaad Khan, 20, who appeared in the same recruitment video for the Islamic
State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) terror group, was in the same year as
Nasser at Cathays High School in Cardiff and the youths were friends, Mr
Muthana’s father Ahmed has confirmed.

“I used to have him in my car. I’d take them to the mosque. He seemed fine.
Like all of them,” Mr